Improvement in sewing-machines



H. T. STAIN.

Sewing Machine.

Patented March 29, 1864.

[Wm E5555 WM UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICEQ HENRY T. STAINS, OF SGOT-TSVILLE ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT BAIRD, Oh

SHIRLEYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMLPROVEM ENT IN SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42, [49, dated March 29, 1864.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY '1. STAINS, of

Scotts\'ille,in the county of Huntingdon'and' State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is. a full, clear, and exact. description of the same,

reference beinghad to theaccompanying'draw- 1859, or any other similar stitching device, in

proper position over an adjustable table, in such a manner that said stitching device can be used as a stationary sewing-machine. The stitching device of Henry Hudson consists essentially of a fiat plate of sheet metal or other suitable material, provided with a vertical arborand cams to impart motion to two needles, and with a curvedfoot; and theorigiiial idea of the invention, as described in the patent above referred to, has been to produce a self-feeding automatic stitch-forming device which can be carried or will carry itself over the stretched or stationary fabric. 1n experimenting with his machine I found that the same could be used with advantage as an ordinary sewing-machine, in which the stitching device remains stationary and the fabric is fed along by the action of the machine. With this object in view I have constructed a clamp and table which forms the subject of this present improvement, and which will be readily understood from the following description.

- Arepreseuts a standard, made of iron, either cast, malleable, or wrought, or of any other suitable material,and fastened down by means of screws, or in any other desirable manner,

upon a bed-plate, B. This bed-plate may be.

chine to said arm in an expeditious manner, I- *have provided the same with a screw-clamp,

D, one jaw of which is formed by the end of the arm, its other jaw being secured to said arm by a thumb-screw, E. By means ofthis thumb-screw the bed-plate of the sewing-machine can be firmly secured between the jaws in any desired height above the bed-plate B, from which the standard A rises.

The fabric or material to be stitched is supf ported by a table, F, which is provided with an arm, G, fitting on a square stud, H. This stud is firmly secured to the bed-plate B, and a set-screw, a, passing through the end of the arm G, serves to adjust the table'at any desired height. I

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I V The employment or use of a standard, A,

and screw-clamp D, in combinationwith a vertically-adjustable table, F, and with the bed-plate of a stitching device, all constructed and operating substantially as and forthe purpose herein shown and described.

' HENRY 'l. STAINS.

Witnesses:

WM. J. HAMPSON, RUDOLPH MYERS. 

